US9616183B2 - Autoinjector having two springs for biasing the shroud forwardly - Google Patents

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US9616183B2
US9616183B2 US13/997,475 US201113997475A US9616183B2 US 9616183 B2 US9616183 B2 US 9616183B2 US 201113997475 A US201113997475 A US 201113997475A US 9616183 B2 US9616183 B2 US 9616183B2
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  • This invention relates to autoinjectors.
  • a needle shroud may be biased between retracted and extended positions by means of a compression spring particularly where it is necessary or desirable to view the contents of the syringe which surrounds the syringe.
  • a drawback with this arrangement is that, before use, the turns of the spring obscure the view of the syringe.
  • this invention provides an autoinjector including a main body containing a syringe or cartridge with a needle at its front end for being moved forwardly in the body to extend the needle from said body for an injection, said body housing in a forward region a shroud having a forward portion of generally tubular form, the shroud being moveable longitudinally between a rearward retracted position and a forward extended position, the autoinjector further including a spring arrangement for biasing the shroud forwardly, said spring arrangement including two springs disposed alongside and spaced from the longitudinal axis.
  • the springs do not circumscribe the syringe, they can be positioned to either side of the syringe so that they do not obscure a view thereof. Also, the springs can be disposed within a compartment which is not visible to the user.
  • twin spaced springs can also provide greater flexibility in design of the autoinjector as it may allow the springs to be disposed in a rearward position.
  • the springs are disposed in a rearward position, this can free up space in the forward interior of the injector. Furthermore, there are advantages in terms of ergonomics and enhanced stability when placed on a surface that follow from adoption of an oblate or elliptical cross-section device. It will be appreciated that the positioning of the springs to either side of the syringe allows this to be achieved, and with a smaller minor axis dimension if required.
  • the springs are disposed on a central longitudinal plane of the autoinjector so as to provide a balanced longitudinal thrust on the shroud.
  • the springs are at least partially contained in a space bounded in the radially outer direction by a surface (preferably concave) associated with said shroud, and in the radially inner direction by a surface associated with said syringe carrier (preferably concave). In this manner the springs are at least partially hidden from view.
  • the springs are compression springs.
  • the syringe carrier has respective longitudinal members passing down at least part of the length of the inside of each spring, thereby to constrain the springs internally to prevent snaking which might otherwise occur with thin long springs in compression.
  • the longitudinal members are preferably designed so that they pass inside the shroud when the syringe or cartridge moves forwardly when the autoinjector is fired.
  • said syringe or cartridge is located within a syringe carrier mounted for longitudinal movement within said body, and said shroud is moved for relative longitudinal movement with respect to said syringe carrier during at least one phase of operation of said autoinjector.
  • said springs may be disposed to act between a structural element forming part of or connected to said syringe carrier and a structural part forming part of or connected to said shroud respectively.
  • each of said springs is a coiled compression spring, with a spring index (coil diameter: wire diameter) of from 3 to 20.
  • a spring index coil diameter: wire diameter
  • the ratio of the free length of the spring to the deflection of the spring between its retracted and extended positions lies in the range of from 3:1 to 6:1.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an autoinjector in accordance with an embodiment of this invention with the first, front cap removed prior to an injection, but before removal of the second, rear cap;
  • FIG. 2 is a view of the autoinjector with the rear assembly and front assembly separate prior to loading of a syringe in the forward assembly and being snap-fitted together;
  • FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the front assembly
  • FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the rear assembly
  • FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of the syringe carrier
  • FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the needle shroud
  • FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the front body housing
  • FIG. 8 is an enlarged view of the spring guide
  • FIG. 9 is a view showing the spring guide and syringe carrier snap-fitted together.
  • FIG. 10 is an enlarged view of the front cap/needle shield remover
  • FIG. 11 is a horizontal section view taken through the cap of FIG. 10 on the major axis thereof;
  • FIG. 12 is an enlarged view of the trigger button
  • FIG. 13 is an enlarged view of the plunger
  • FIGS. 14( a ) and ( b ) are transverse section views on the major and minor planes respectively of the autoinjector when in its pre-use condition;
  • FIGS. 15( a ) and ( b ) are transverse section views on the major and minor planes respectively of the autoinjector after use, and
  • FIGS. 16( a ) and ( b ) are detail views on the front end of the device showing the forwardly dished skin-contact surface.
  • the autoinjector illustrated in the Figures and described below is designed automatically to inject a selected dose of medicament when offered up an injection site and fired.
  • the autoinjector comprises a rear assembly 10 containing a drive mechanism and a front assembly 12 for receiving a syringe 13 with medicament.
  • the front and rear assemblies are snap-fitted together during manufacture.
  • a removable cap 14 On the front end of the device is a removable cap 14 that also serves as needle shield remover as to be described below.
  • a rear cap 16 On the rear end of the rear assembly is a rear cap 16 which includes a safety pin which prevents premature firing of the drive mechanism, the rear cap also covering the firing button 18 .
  • the front assembly 12 comprises an outer body housing 20 of generally clear plastic material defining opposed integral viewing windows 22 through which the syringe can be viewed when the device has been assembled.
  • the windows allow the whole of the dose volume of the syringe to be viewed.
  • the body housing 20 may be opaque. Provision of a transparent window element, instead of the common arrangement of an open aperture or slot, has the advantage of preventing external access to the syringe. Also the provision of twin shroud springs spaced to either side of the longitudinal axis of the device means that the entire length of the dose volume is clearly visible without being obscured by any springs etc.
  • a needle shroud 24 Slideably mounted within the housing 20 is a needle shroud 24 having a chamfered, conical and/or convexly curved domed front face 26 with a central aperture 28 therein to provide a forwardly dished configuration through which the needle of the syringe may project during the injection.
  • the shroud 24 includes two rearwardly extending arms 30 of arcuate cross-section, extending back from a forward tubular section 32 .
  • a syringe carrier 34 Slideably coupled to the needle shroud is a syringe carrier 34 having a forward tubular portion 36 capable of sliding telescopically inside the tubular portion 36 of the needle shroud 24 .
  • a spring guide 46 has two forwardly extending fingers 48 that pass down the centre of each one of the pair of shroud springs 44 .
  • the spring guide 46 has an over-moulded liner 50 surrounding a circular aperture 52 through which a syringe is passed.
  • the liner serves as a shock absorber for the syringe.
  • the spring guide 46 is a snap fit with the rear end of the syringe carrier 34 as to be described below.
  • the spring guide 46 has a rearwardly extending tubular portion in one side wall of which is a recess 53 for captively receiving a disc magnet 54 .
  • the rear assembly comprises a rear body housing 56 in which is received the main drive spring 58 which acts on the rear end of a plunger 60 .
  • the plunger has a forward end 62 for engaging the piston 11 within a syringe and an over-moulded coloured indicator strip 64 .
  • To the rear of the indicator strip 64 is a transverse passage 66 in which is mounted for transverse movement a ball magnet 68 .
  • To the rear of the passage 66 is a provided a recess 70 which receives a ferro-magnetic keeper ball 72 which is fixedly disposed on the longitudinal axis of the plunger 60 .
  • the plunger 60 has two rearwardly extending split arrowhead limbs 74 with barbs 76 on the rear ends which seat around the edge of an annular catchment surface 77 in the inside of the rear body housing 56 (see FIGS. 14 and 15 ) to latch the plunger in a cocked position, with the main spring 58 compressed.
  • the autoinjector is of modular construction designed to allow all except two components to be the same for autoinjectors with syringes of three different fill volumes.
  • the shape and the size of the syringe itself is standard; only the fill volume is different.
  • the two components that vary are the rear body housing 56 and the plunger 60 .
  • the forward end of the rear body housing 56 contains opposed cut outs or slots 78 which are of variable length according to the fill volume contained in the syringe.
  • the axial length of the slots 78 in the rear body housing 56 is proportional to the fill volume.
  • the indicator position moves by the same amount so that it arrives at the same place relative to the body at the end of the plunger stroke.
  • the plunger is also modified according to the fill volume of the syringe to locate the magnet-containing passage 66 so that, at the end of its forward stroke, it reaches the same axial position with respect to the rear body housing 56 for each fill volume.
  • the plunger 60 and the axial length of the slots 78 are designed so that, for each of the plurality of fill volumes, the user will see prior to use in the viewing window 22 just that length of the syringe containing the dose, with the window being framed at the rear end by the slots 78 . After the dose has been delivered, the indicator will be at the same forward position for each fill volume.
  • the syringe carrier 34 has twin linear ribs 82 provided to either side of the forward tubular portion 36 .
  • the ribs 82 run in respective channels 84 on the inside of the tubular portion 32 of the needle shroud.
  • a live hinge 85 from which extends back a spring finger 86 with a barb 88 with a rearwardly inclined forward surface.
  • the syringe carrier has four lugs 98 that, when the device is assembled, run in respective slots 100 in the front body portion 20 to limit linear movement of the syringe carrier relative to the front body portion 20 .
  • Snap fitted onto the rear of the syringe carrier is the spring guide 46 as shown in FIG. 8 .
  • This has snap fit tabs 102 that snap fit around walls 104 on the rear end of the syringe carrier.
  • the tabs also form a platen surface for the shroud springs 44 , with the spring guide fingers 48 passing down the centre thereof.
  • the forward ends of the shroud springs are seated on projecting fingers 106 towards the rear of the arms 30 of the needle shroud 24 .
  • each slot 90 About two-thirds of the way back from the front of each slot 90 are two barbs 108 with inclined forward surfaces. Behind each slot 90 , on a live hinge is a rearward barb 110 , again with an inclined forward surface.
  • the barbs 108 and 110 cooperate with respective opposed barbs 112 about a third of the way down the length of the front body housing 20 on the inner walls thereof.
  • the arrangement of the barbs in the pre-use position can be clearly seen in FIGS. 14 and 15 .
  • the barbs 108 on the needle shroud cooperate with the barbs 112 on the front body housing to prevent rearward movement of the needle shroud 24 .
  • the forward faces of the barbs 88 on the syringe carrier also cooperate with the barbs 112 on the front body housing on the forward housing to prevent forward movement of the syringe carrier 34 prior to and during removal of the front cap 14 .
  • Removing the cap removes a bracing on the barbs 88 which initially prevents inward movement of the barbs so that, when fired, the force of the drive spring causes the barbs 88 to cam past the barbs 112 on the front body housing.
  • the sub-assembly of the syringe 13 and the syringe carrier 34 is shifted forwardly, relative to the forward housing to a limit position defined by the lugs 98 reaching the forward ends of the slots 100 .
  • the needle shroud 24 moves forward as the skin contact pressure is removed from the surface 28 as the device is lifted clear of the skin. This allows the needle shroud to move forwardly under the influence of the shroud springs 46 so that the rear barbs 110 move forwardly and snap past the barbs 112 on the front housing 20 to prevent retraction once the needle shroud has extended.
  • the barbs 110 are braced in this position by the underlying ramp surfaces 96 on the syringe carrier 34 .
  • the removable front cap 14 has opposed slots 114 which align with the slots 78 on the rear body housing 56 , to frame the window 22 in the front body housing 20 to allow viewing of the dose volume as described above.
  • the cap is elliptical in outer section and has an inner central cylindrical portion 116 extending rearwardly from which extend further two fingers 118 of arcuate cross-section disposed on the major axis of the ellipse.
  • the ribs 120 are designed to snap into a gap formed between the forward shoulder on the barrel of the syringe 13 and the rear surface of the rigid needle shield 15 or an aperture therein.
  • the rigid needle shroud 15 snaps past the ribs 120 so that they lodge behind the rear edge of the needle shield 15 (or a rear edge of an aperture in the needle shield) as shown.
  • the front cap 14 also has twin shallow scallops 122 which releasably engage pips 124 on the outer surface of the front body housing when the cap is fitted (see FIGS. 14 and 15 ).
  • the fingers 118 of the cap When in the condition as supplied ( FIG. 14 ) the fingers 118 of the cap underlie the spring fingers 86 on the syringe carrier 34 and prevent these from flexing inwardly. In this condition, the fingers 118 thus brace the spring fingers 86 against inward unlatching motion.
  • the forward end of the cylindrical portion 116 of the cap 14 is also provided with inward projections 123 aligned with the minor axis of the ellipse and which prevent forward movement of the rigid needle shield relative to the front cap 14 . In this way, when the front cap 14 is withdrawn from the position shown in FIG. 15 , the ribs 120 pull the rigid needle shield 15 to ease it off the forward end of the syringe 13 .
  • the presence of the fingers 118 also temporarily locks the syringe carrier 34 (and thus the syringe 13 ) against forward movement by blocking the fingers 86 against inward movement until the needle shield is off the syringe to prevent the syringe from being pulled forwardly if there is a tight fit between the syringe and the needle shield.
  • the needle shield 15 is captive in the cap 14 , trapped by the ribs 120 and the inward projections 123 . Orienting the ribs 120 and the inward projections 123 at 90° means that the open ended cap may be injection-moulded in a simple injection mould with a slide rather than requiring a more complex mould design.
  • the firing button 18 is of elliptical form with two split arrowhead tabs 125 aligned with the minor axis, which seat behind respective ribs on the inner rear surface of the rear housing portion 56 to retain the firing button 18 on the rear of the housing and to limit rearward movement thereof.
  • the inner rear surface of the trigger has a firing boss 126 which is of slightly smaller diameter than the outer diameter of the split arrowheads 74 on the rear of the plunger 60 so that, when the firing button 18 is pressed forwardly from the position shown, the boss squeezes the twin arrowheads 74 together to release the barbs 76 from the catchment surface 77 to free the plunger for forward movement.
  • the firing button 18 has an aperture 130 concentric with the boss 126 through which a safety pin 134 on the rear cap 16 passes to hold the split arrowheads apart.
  • a safety pin 134 on the rear cap 16 passes to hold the split arrowheads apart.
  • two forwardly extending flexible biasing strips 134 Aligned with the major axis of the ellipse are two forwardly extending flexible biasing strips 134 which cooperate with respective bias camming surfaces 136 in the rear end of the rear housing 56 , as shown in FIGS. 14( a ) and 15( a ) to provide a low friction gliding plastic-to-plastic surface contact.
  • the camming surfaces 136 are shaped to provide a predetermined variation of resistance force with distance.
  • the biasing strips cooperate with the curved rear portion of the camming surfaces to provide a bias force tending to restore the button to its rearmost position as defined by the split arrowhead tabs. It is desirable to provide a tactile resistance to movement and to require a few millimetres of movement before the firing boss 126 releases the plunger, to avoid premature firing.
  • a forward portion of the camming surfaces is of shallower inclination and designed to provide a non-reversible resistance to movement after the device has been fired, thereby to trap or wedge the firing button in its forwardmost position. This gives a further useful visual cue to a user as to whether the device has been fired or not.
  • the camming surface may instead be designed to return the button to its original position after firing.
  • the autoinjector as illustrated includes several safety features to prevent inadvertent firing and to render the device safe after use. It is also highly desirable to resist or prevent disassembly of the device after use. It will be noted from the description and FIG. 2 above that the device is assembled by inserting a syringe into the syringe carrier in the front assembly and then snap-fitting the front and rear assemblies together. The snap fitting is done by means of outwardly facing sprung tabs 138 , 140 on the rear of the front body housing 20 which seat simultaneously in respective apertures 142 in the rear body housing 56 . One pair of tabs 138 is aligned with the minor axis and one pair 140 with the major axis of the device.
  • the user For operation, the user removes the front cap 14 and rear cap 16 , thereby arming the device.
  • the device is then offered up to the injection site to press the conical or curved front face of the needle shroud 26 against their skin.
  • the firing button 18 is pressed, which releases the plunger 60 for forward movement under the action of the main drive spring 58 .
  • the plunger and syringe move as one forwardly to extend the needle to penetrate the flesh, with this movement continuing until the lugs 98 on the syringe carrier reach the forward end of the slots 100 on the front body housing, thereby inserting the syringe needle to the required depth.
  • the sprung engagement finger 145 flexes inwardly into the bore of the syringe and the plunger continues to move, driving the piston 11 down the syringe body to expel a dose.
  • the spring engagement finger may yield so that the plunger starts to move into the syringe before forward movement of the latter is arrested.
  • the user then removes the device from their skin and the release of pressure on the front end of the needle shroud 24 means that it can now extend forwardly under the influence of the twin shroud springs 44 to move forwardly to shield the needle.
  • the barbs 110 snap past the barbs 112 on the inside of the front housing 20 thereby to prevent retraction of the needle shroud.

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